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2. Agriculture and food 2050: visions to promote transformation driven by science and society
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gebhard, Elisabeth (author), Hagemann, Nikolas (author), Hensler, Loni (author), Schweizer, Steffen (author), and Wember, Carla (author)
- Format:
- unknown
- Publication Date:
- 2015-06
- Published:
- Germany: Springer Netherlands
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10270
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(3) : 497-516
- Notes:
- Via online journal., Today’s food production and consumption go hand in hand with immense damages to humans and nature. Change is needed, but where to start and which direction to go? This article tries to give an interdisciplinary answer by taking recourse to a vision, that is, an ideal image of the future which is drawn upon ethical reflection and beyond the limits of actual political and economic constraints. The main purpose of this paper is to show that generating and discussing visions can be a powerful process in order to regain ability to act in the face of the complex challenges of our time and that Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) plays an important role to enable current and future generations to become actors of change. First, a students vision on agriculture and society in 2050 is presented, followed by a theoretical examination of visions, their potentials, limits and practical implications. Subsequently, the results of a field analysis of current innovative solutions to local agriculture are given. These include intercultural gardens and community supported agriculture. Claiming that a sustainable development can only be reached if people are not only able to envision a desirable future, but to develop small scale, locally adapted solutions as answers to challenges such as climate change, this paper then focuses on the competence oriented educational concept of ESD. Here, an approach of integrating ethics in the course of studies of agricultural sciences implemented by a student’s initiative serves as practice example.
3. Australian adults' knowledge of Australian agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Worsley, Anthony (author), Wang, Wei (author), and Ridley, Stacey (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Published:
- Australia: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Bingley, UK.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08125
- Journal Title:
- British Food Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 117 (1): 400-411
4. Can members’ WeChat engagement affect relational outcomes in community‐supported agriculture? empirical evidence from China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tan, Si (author) and Chen, Weiping (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10908
- Journal Title:
- Agribusiness
- Journal Title Details:
- 35: 36– 52
- Notes:
- 17 pages., via online journal., Members’ offline engagement is commonly believed to affect the producer–member relationship in community‐supported agriculture, however, little research focuses on engagement in the online context. Using qualitative data of 24 members and quantitative data of 279 members from China, this study uses a sequential exploratory mixed‐method design to explore the impact of members’ WeChat engagement on relational outcomes. The findings indicate that WeChat engagement positively affects four relational outcomes: Service satisfaction, word of mouth, social bonds, and commitment. In addition, those four relational outcomes are not equally influenced by WeChat engagement. The greatest impact is on commitment, while the lowest is on service satisfaction. Furthermore, multigroup analysis results suggest that gender moderates the relationship between WeChat engagement and commitment.
5. Common ground? Motivations for participation in a community-supported agriculture scheme
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cox, Rosie (author), Holloway, Lewis (author), Venn, Laura (author), Dowler, Liz (author), Hein, Jane Ricketts (author), Kneafsey, Moya (author), and Tuomainen, Helen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- England
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07823
- Journal Title:
- Local Environment
- Journal Title Details:
- 13 (3): 203-218
6. Community economic development initiatives: a descriptive exploratory study of community shared agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ashiabi, Godwin S. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2000
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10641
- Journal Title:
- Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 31(2): 365-379
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., This study examines community economic development (CED) initiatives and focuses on community shared agriculture (CSA) as an alternative form of farming to industrialized agriculture. CSA connects the farmers directly with consumers, such that both farmers and consumers share the benefits and risks involved in agriculture. The purpose of this study was to understand what motivates individuals to become involved in a CSA and what involvement in CSA means for them. As a point of departure, the ecological and social psychological problems associated with industrialized agriculture are elucidated. Empowerment theory, social vitality, and sense of community were used as conceptual frameworks. Data were collected on a community farm in midwest Ontario using a participant-observer mode of inquiry and open-ended interviews. The themes that emerged were categorized under empowerment, social vitality, and sense of community.
7. Community history and rural development: why some farmers participate more readily than others
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Walters, B.B. (author), Cadelina, A (author), Cardano, A (author), Visitacion, E (author), and Rutgers University Silliman University, Philippines
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-02
- Published:
- Philippines: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10959
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 59(1999) : 193-214
- Notes:
- 22 pages, via online journal, Past explanations of why rural people respond as they do to external development interventions have emphasized the role of key limiting factors or critical characteristics (wealth, education, land tenure, etc.) which are thought to influence peoples' behavior in predictable ways. Efforts to promote tree planting and soil conservation in eight neighboring villages in the Philippines revealed that variation in participation did not reflect clear patterns based on existing household or village characteristics. Instead, specific responses to interventions reflected a complex, but interpretable interaction between existing socio-economic factors and historic trends or events. Characteristics like the degree of local knowledge, security of land tenure and community cohesion affected peoples' participation, in general, but their specific influence was neither predictable nor consistent between, and even within, individual villages. An appreciation of the specific historic context was often sufficient to explain these variations. The following historic trends and events were found to have important consequences for peoples' participation: migration and settlement history; family and group lineages; history of socio-political organization and conflict; history of physical isolation; labor history; economic–ecological history; environmental history; and past exposure to development agents. The paper concludes with a preliminary checklist of questions intended to assist researchers and development agents to discover relevant and interesting historical information about rural villages.
8. Ending Lacewing Acres: toward amplifying microperspectives on farm closure
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dubisar, Abby M. (author) and Slocum, Julia A. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07-08
- Published:
- USA: Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12651
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Iss. 11, Vol. 4
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Farmers are invited to tell stories about their farms, especially about their farm’s origin and history. However, some farm stories go untold, are uninvited, or become obscured, including stories of farm closures. With this case study, we invite journalists and academics to provide further opportunities for farmers to tell their own closure stories. Written by the farmer and her CSA member and friend, who researches farmer communication, this case study calls on farmers to tell their farm-closure stories in the complicated and robust ways such stories deserve. We draw on academic and public scholarship about farm closures and farmers’ disclosures to feature how one farmer decided to end her farm and farming career. We chronicle her decision-making process and her strategies to communicate the closure of her farm, as well as analyze themes from how audiences reacted to her news. We also offer a range of reasons for inviting such telling of complex closure stories.
9. Engaging farmers in environmental management through a better understanding of behaviour
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mills, Jane (author), Gaskell, Peter (author), Ingram, Julie (author), Dwyer, Janet (author), Reed, Matt (author), Short, Christopher (author), and University of Gloucestershire
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-06-15
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Springer Nature
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11282
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(2017) : 283-299
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal, The United Kingdom’s approach to encouraging environmentally positive behaviour has been three-pronged, through voluntarism, incentives and regulation, and the balance between the approaches has fluctuated over time. Whilst financial incentives and regulatory approaches have been effective in achieving some environmental management behavioural change amongst farmers, ultimately these can be viewed as transient drivers without long-term sustainability. Increasingly, there is interest in ‘nudging’ managers towards voluntary environmentally friendly actions. This approach requires a good understanding of farmers’ willingness and ability to take up environmental activities and the influences on farmer behavioural change. The paper aims to provide insights from 60 qualitative farmer interviews undertaken for a research project into farmers’ willingness and ability to undertake environmental management, particularly focusing on social psychological insights. Furthermore, it explores farmers’ level of engagement with advice and support networks that foster a genuine interest, responsibility and a sense of personal and social norm to sustain high quality environmental outcomes. Two conceptual frameworks are presented for usefully exploring the complex set of inter-relationships that can influence farmers’ willingness to undertake environmental management practices. The research findings show how an in-depth understanding of farmer’s willingness and ability to adopt environmental management practices and their existing level of engagement with advice and support are necessary to develop appropriate engagement approaches to achieve sustained and durable environmental management.
10. Examining farmers markets’ usage of social media: An investigation of a farmers market Facebook page
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cui, Yue (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- New Leaf Associates, Inc
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10899
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(1):87-103
- Notes:
- 17 pages., via online journal., Social media are transforming communication between organizations and their audiences, and even changing the organizations themselves. Social media's low cost and low requirements for technical skills needed to both use and maintain an online presence allow small businesses with limited marketing budgets to use the same marketing strategies as bigger businesses with large marketing budgets. In addition, social media provides businesses direct and interactive ways to reach out and retain customers. This case study analyzes Cedar Park Farmers Market (CPFM)'s use of its Facebook page. Using Facebook Graph API Explorer, we extracted data regarding posts and fans of CPFM's Facebook page since the page was created. We then examined the data to explore the social networks, including farmers market organizers, vendors, and customers, within CPFM's Facebook page and how the market used its Facebook page, by looking at the Facebook page layout, composition of fans, post intensity, post ownership, media type, and degree of engagement. We found that (1) the market organizers, customers, vendors, and local communities were all engaged with the CPFM Facebook page; (2) the CPFM used Facebook as a marketing platform to publish timely information (e.g., available products or upcoming events) and to reach and retain customers and vendors; and (3) the CPFM's Facebook page functioned as a cyber–social hub to connect and engage the local community.
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